Federal Register, Volume 76 Issue 93 (Friday, May 13, 2011)
[Page 28067]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-11863]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[2253-665]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Field Museum of
Natural History, Chicago, IL
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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Notice is here given in accordance with the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of the intent
to repatriate cultural items in the possession of the Field Museum of
Natural History (Field Museum), Chicago, IL, that meet the definition
of unassociated funerary objects under 25 U.S.C. 3001.
This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The
determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the
museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the cultural
items. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice.
The three cultural items are copper pendants. One copper pendant
(Field Museum catalog number 279396) has an oblong shape and measures
6.5 cm x 2.4 cm. The second copper pendant (Field Museum catalog number
279544) has a roughly triangular shape with a hole at the top in which
fiber runs through, and measures 7.1 cm x 7.1 cm. The third copper
pendant (Field Museum catalog number 279567) has an oblong shape and
measures 7.3 cm x 5 cm.
According to Field Museum records, the three cultural items were
removed from Franklin County, WA. At an unknown date, Donald O.
Boudeman acquired the items for the Kalamazoo Valley Museum, Kalamazoo,
MI. In 1999, the Field Museum of Natural History acquired the cultural
items as a gift from the Kalamazoo Valley Museum, and accessioned them
into its collections that same year.
The three cultural items have been identified as Native American
through museum records, scholarly publications, and consultation
information provided by representatives of the Confederated Tribes of
the Colville Reservation, Washington; Confederated Tribes of the
Umatilla Indian Reservation, Oregon; Confederated Tribes of the Warm
Springs Reservation of Oregon; Confederated Tribes and Bands of the
Yakama Nation, Washington; Nez Perce Tribe, Idaho; and the Wanapum
Band, a non-Federally recognized Indian group.
Officials of the Field Museum of Natural History have determined,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), that the cultural items described
above are reasonably believed to have been placed with or near
individual human remains at the time of death or later as part of a
death rite or ceremony and are believed, by a preponderance of the
evidence, to have been removed from a specific burial site of a Native
American individual. Officials of the Field Museum of Natural History
also have determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), that there is a
relationship of shared group identity that can be reasonably traced
between the unassociated funerary objects and the Confederated Tribes
of the Colville Reservation, Washington; Confederated Tribes of the
Umatilla Indian Reservation, Oregon; and Confederated Tribes and Bands
of the Yakama Nation, Washington. Furthermore, officials of the Field
Museum of Natural History have determined that there is a cultural
relationship between the unassociated funerary objects and the Wanapum
Band, a non-Federally recognized Indian group.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the unassociated funerary objects should
contact Helen Robbins, Repatriation Director, Field Museum of Natural
History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Dr., Chicago, IL 60605, telephone (312)
665-7317, before June 13, 2011. Repatriation of the unassociated
funerary objects to the Confederated Tribes of the Colville
Reservation, Washington; Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian
Reservation, Oregon; and Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama
Nation, Washington, may proceed after that date if no additional
claimants come forward. The Field Museum of Natural History recognizes
the participation of the Wanapum Band, a non-Federally recognized
Indian group, during the transfer of the unassociated funerary objects
to the Indian tribes.
The Field Museum is responsible for notifying the Confederated
Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Washington; Confederated Tribes of
the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Oregon; Confederated Tribes of the
Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon; Confederated Tribes and Bands of
the Yakama Nation, Washington; the Nez Perce Tribe, Idaho, and the
Wanapum Band, a non-Federally recognized Indian group, that this notice
has been published.
Dated: May 9, 2011.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2011-11863 Filed 5-12-11; 8:45 am]
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